Help with future project

Hello community i am new to vb.net and was wondering if anyone had some turtorials as i am trying to create a tool for my job.

I would like to create a tool to gather data from sql 2008 by searching a clients name and then pulling the clients record and exporting it to a txt file
any info on were to start will be greatly appreciated my coding backround is in java and python i am learning vb as i go so bear with me.

1)You will want to start with connecting to the database.
There are many different types of connection providers, you will have to chose the one you like the best.

2)You will have to retrieve and store the information in a data table.
You will find out more about this when researching connecting to a database.
You will need to write queries to return unique values.

3)You will cycle through the table, writing the values to a text file.
You will need to research stream readers/writers.

You will have to change a few things for when you run it on your computer. If you are using SQLEXPRESS then you should be ok with the current SERVER name. You will have to change the values for DATABASE and OUTFILE and most definitely you will need to change the names in the "select UserName..." statement.

Imports ADODB
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Public Class Form1
Const SERVER = ".\sqlexpress" 'the .\ refers to the local computer
Const DATABASE = "mydb" 'this is the name of my test database
Const OUTFILE = "D:\temp\out.txt" 'this is file that will be written
Private Sub btnGetData_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnGetData.Click
Dim con As New ADODB.Connection 'this connects you to a server and database
Dim rec As New ADODB.Recordset 'this is where you get your data
'open a connection to the database and select some records
con.Open("Driver={SQL Server};Server=" & SERVER & ";Database=" & DATABASE & ";Trusted_Connection=yes;")
rec.Open("select UserName, DateIn from Test1", con, CursorTypeEnum.adOpenForwardOnly)
'open an I/O channel to a file
Dim fs As New FileStream("d:\temp\out.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)
Dim sw As New StreamWriter(fs)
'write all of the retrieved records to the file
Do Until rec.EOF
sw.WriteLine(rec("UserName").Value & "," & rec("DateIn").Value)
rec.MoveNext()
Loop
'close the connections
sw.Close()
rec.Close()
con.Close()
End Sub
End Class